There is therefore not the slightest ground to countenance the rather dangerous idea, that the apostle did not employ a phrase analogous to the correct one which is found elsewhere in the New Testament, and adopted "a popular and familiar mode of expression," i.e. He was resurrected in a new body, patterned after the old yet equipped and fitted for heaven. Certainly this is painful and humbling. I made it myself." ", And now there is the most lovely picture of Christ again; for it is always Christ here, and this again practically. shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. Every teacher must be more anxious to listen to God than to propagate his own opinions or he, too, will run the risk of being a worker of evil, even when he thinks that he is a worker of righteousness. I do not say that the fruits of the loving service of any one of them will be forgotten there; nor that even glory will not bear the impress of that which has been really of the Holy Ghost here. Therefore, they said, it was a man's duty to plumb the depths of sin just as much as to scale the heights of virtue. He had his heart on these two great peculiarities of the Christian religion. "They really did me wrong. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. And there Paul was converted. He is regarded as the true adversary, working, of course, by human means; but none the less is it his power. And that he ever was anything but a prisoner there, man at least cannot say. This is what the Lord intended for me, to be with Him in His kingdom, to share with Him His glory. Proud member And what is the result? The hope and prospect of it carried him with so much courage and constancy through all the difficulties he met with in his work. WebPhilippians 2:1-5. He was totally, completely ostracized by those who were once his compatriots, those whom he once shared with. Article Images Copyright 2023 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. As he who runs a race never takes up short of the end, but is still making forwards as fast as he can, so those who have heaven in their eye must still be pressing forward to it in holy desires and hopes, and constant endeavours and preparations. You can have these things of your flesh, you know. "Help them" (says he) "with Clement also, and with my other fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life. Hence he at once begins, not with a doctrinal preparation after the introduction, but the introduction brings us as usual into the general spirit if not special object of the epistle. Paul claims that not only was he a Jew who had retained his ancestral religion, but he had also devoted his whole life to its most rigorous observance. As far as his zeal and according to the righteousness that is in the law, he was blameless. exanastasin, lit. Not in a figurative sense, the resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace, of which Christ is "Therefore," says he, though I am in a strait betwixt two," as he had said before, "having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. (i) He had been circumcised when he was eight days old. He is forgetting the things which are behind. We love him because he first loved us,1 John 4:19. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. And if anyone is otherwise minded in any way, this too God will reveal to him. This is salvation in truth. And rather than resting in the past, what God has done, let's look forward to what God wants to do. Thus we know how on approaching Rome Paul was lifted up and comforted, as he saw those who came to greet him. The tribe of Benjamin had the place of honour in Israel's battle-line, so that the battle-cry of Israel was: "After thee, O Benjamin!" A Hebrew was a Jew who was not only of pure racial descent but who had deliberately, and often laboriously, retained the Hebrew tongue. For God had made the world full of life; He "saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good," and Satan apparently won the victory over Him in it. There is a Rabbinic saying, "The nations of the world are like dogs." This he must wish for them, if he wished them well. Skubala has two meanings. For, in point of fact, through this epistle salvation is seen as going on from first to last, and not yet complete, being never viewed as such till the conflict with Satan is altogether closed. What a word, and how calculated to make us ashamed! Now she walks back out where all of the girls are waiting, and she said, "Look girls," and as they gasp in amazement at the glory and the beauty of the dress, she said, "This is something that I could have never purchased for myself. Here I am, you know, come and I will teach you. In Philippians 3:1-21 there is no coming down from glory in the power of divine love, resulting in His exaltation by and for the glory of God the Father after a new sort. Nevertheless there is that which is suited only to the conditions of time; there is that which, given here, survives all change. It is not only his reckoning in the first fervour of love for the Saviour. He esteemed men better than himself. Their gift to him was "an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God." 87-88; and S. Lewis Johnson Jr., "The Out-Resurrection from the Dead," Bibliotheca Sacra 110 (1953):139-46; and Lightner, "Philippians," p. It was not thus that the true-hearted Philippians felt; and spiritual feeling is worth more than all reasoning. (ii) Our only boast is in Jesus Christ. And did feel rather sorry for her. They stubbornly refused to be assimilated to the nations amongst whom they lived; they retained faithfully their own religion and their own customs and their own laws. She couldn't buy a dress, but she really didn't have much money to buy very good material. How the text got gradually changed from the most correct form (not correction) in the early Uncials has been explained. There were those who distorted the Christian doctrine of grace. B. Lightfoot speaks of "the dogs which prowl about eastern cities, without a home and without an owner, feeding on the refuse and filth of the streets, quarrelling among themselves, and attacking the passer-by.". "You remember Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, chapter 5 of Matthew, said, "Except your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter the kingdom of heaven." This is the only allusion, as far as I know, to flesh in this epistle, but it is flesh in its religious form, and not as a source of evil lusts and passions. Christ is the sovereign balm for every wound; and it was the apostle's joy, whatever men's spirit might be, not only to enjoy Christ himself, but that His name was being proclaimed far and wide by many lips, that souls might hear and live. This is the unfailing secret of it all the true source of humility in service. (ii) He was of the race of Israel. WebFor we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit ( Philippians 3:3 ), Paul was constantly emphasizing that the physical rites had no value except there be a The very language Paul uses to describe the Law--excrement--shows the utter disgust for the Law which his own frustrated efforts to live by it had brought him; and the joy that shines through the passage shows how triumphantly adequate he found the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:14. , one thing) viz. I do. , the things that are behind) even the very part of the course that has been finished. ) that is literally, extending myself over. And this ground is one which always brings in the strength of the Holy Ghost, as it is based on God's mighty work of redemption. I found it no better than skubala ( G4657) ." It means full-grown in contradistinction to undeveloped; for example, it is used of a full-grown man as opposed to an undeveloped youth. Most people in the world have no experience of lasting joy in their lives. According to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself: This is possible only because the God we serve is omnipotent. The fitter we grow for heaven the faster we must press towards it. They are living in the past, the past glories. ( 1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ), When Jesus comes again, we will each experience a metamorphosis. Because he looks at Jesus, not in His own personal right and glory, where necessarily all must bow, but rather at Him in His official place as Lord the place He has righteously acquired as man. Thus "forgetting those things which are behind" refers to the progress that we may make. Then Paul urges his followers to continue the Christian race as they have been taught. The one therefore, I say, is the passive side of the Christian; the other is his activity. The lad was condemned to death for his misdeeds; and the father's letter goes on: "His peace increased daily, till on Saturday, the day he was to die, he came out of the condemned-room, clothed in his shroud, and went into the cart. True experience is still the great theme which the apostle has in hand here as well as in his own personal history. They went in. WebOther Commentaries. Julius Caesar was declared to be the universal savior of mankind. It then became a common title for the ruling Caesar. "Yea," said he, "and I count all things but loss." It is not at all as the objects of the gospel, but as having fellowship with it, their hearts bound up and identified with all the trials and difficulties that the gospel was sustaining in its course throughout the world. I mean, if you can be saved by works, if you can be saved by your own efforts, if you can be saved by keeping the law, then Paul said, "Hey, I am ahead of the pack. WebThe true people of God, whom Paul calls the true circumcision, are not those who have carried out a ceremony to put a mark in their bodies, but those who have received new life from Christ through an inward spiritual change (3:1-3). And the problem is that they are constantly going back and going over those bad experiences. And so, it is an established righteousness. It is all judged, and its religious form not least, by Christ "Though," says he, "I might also have confidence in the flesh. It is by faith in his blood,Romans 3:25. But this is not the character of Christian joy. Hey, wait a minute, Paul; I want to get off at the last stop. "For I have no man like-minded, who will naturally care for your state." It was the teaching of Paul that we are saved by grace alone, that salvation is the free gift of God, that we can never earn it but can only humbly and adoringly accept what God has offered to us; and, further, that the offer of God is to all men of all nations and that none is excluded. Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, [and] let us mind the same thing ( Philippians 3:15-16 ). There is real power, there is strength from God that works in the saint; but the feelings of Christ, the mind of Christ morally, is better than all energy. He may perhaps think differently, but, if he is an honest man, God will make it plain to him that he must never relax his effort or lower his standards but must press towards the goal, until the end. The effect upon the individual is usually pride and the developing of a judgmental attitude.As the Pharisee who went in before the Lord and said, "Father, I thank you that I am not as other men. "I beseech Evodia" (we may just notice the true form in passing; Euodias sounds like a man's name, whereas here it is really a woman). Hence he calls upon them, as one that could not be with them to help them in the conflict, to work out their own salvation. The excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.I think that we have to be the most blessed and privileged people in the world. "According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed." Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things [because their minds are always on earthly things] ( Philippians 3:19 ). He calls the Judaisers dogs because they like to cut the flesh of people; that is, they insist that they must circumcise Gentiles before those Gentiles can be saved. Let nobody suppose me to insinuate that a woman is not in place when exercising, according to the Scripture, any gift God has given her. I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead: Paul has discussed in these verses the concepts of justification and sanctification, and now he speaks of the believers glorification. Be of good cheer. Not only was an utterly wrong spirit indulged in the work itself, and toward others engaged actually in it; but even as to the apostle, shut out from such service, a desire to pain and wound was not wanting. But the phrase, the resurrection of the dead, also might be used, in a more limited sense, to denote the resurrection of the righteous as a most desirable object; and this might be secured by effort. Once you are right about Christ, you are right about everything while He is before you. There is nothing so unaffectedly humble as real faith, and, above all, that character of faith which lives on Christ, and which consequently lives Christ. Beware of doers." (ii) As far as the Law went, he was a trained Pharisee. They were more obedient in his absence than in his presence. The things that he had believed to be his glories were in fact quite useless. Christ shone as the true light in the world the light of life. He is author of. It describes the man who is going flat out for the finish. This is one of the main features of our chapter. Thus we see here the power of a risen and a heavenly Christ, not now treated doctrinally as in 1 Corinthians 15:1-58 or 2 Corinthians 5:1-21 and elsewhere, but as that which bears on the Christian for the constant experience of every day. It is perfectly possible for him to observe all the outward observances of religion and yet have hatred and bitterness and pride in his heart. When they returned from the exile, it was from the tribes of Benjamin and Judah that the nucleus of the reborn nation was formed ( Ezra 4:1). Here was a picture the Philippians could understand. He had got a better righteousness, and he desired nothing so much as to be found in Christ, having that which is through faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. "Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ." You can get into a right relationship with God only by taking Jesus Christ at his word, and by accepting what God himself offers to you.". This is a good example, by the way, of the characteristic difference between these two translations. And thus the name dog the Jews began to apply to the Gentiles. This is open to the heart now. But unfortunately, since then, a lot of those things that they counted loss at that point, they picked back up, so that they are encumbered again. The Christian places his confidence only in the mercy of God and in the love of Jesus Christ. WebIt is consciousness contemplating its riches, counting its gains. So, by the trial and error method, the redoing a lot of the seams and all, and the hem wasn't really straight, but it was a good effort. The great feast of Purim, which was observed every year with such rejoicing, commemorated the deliverance of which the Book of Esther tells, and the central figure of that story was Mordecai, a Benjaminite. But it frequently happened that they forgot their own language. They are stagnating now. They joined with those who preached the truth and partook of their obloquy. Superficially this verse seems to suggest that Paul had some doubt about the certainty of his resurrection. Indeed that which had drawn out the epistle was the proof that the trying circumstances of the apostle had but called out their affections. But such things as I could humanly reckon as profits, I came to the conclusion were all loss for the sake of Jesus Christ. The Alexandrian, Vatican, Sinai, Clermont, and St. Germain Uncials, supported by some ten cursives, very many versions, and the chief Greek and Latin ecclesiastical writers read . Because of that, righteousness nearly always for Paul has the meaning of a right relationship with God. Generally the NASB is more literal, translating a Greek word with the same English word wherever the Greek word occurs. And so yes, I want to know the power of the resurrection, but if I am to experience that, I have got to, first of all, experience the fellowship of the suffering, the death on the cross, the death to my old self, my old nature. Had it been a question of his apostolic dignity, this could not have been; but an apostle even could, and did, and loved to, take the place of one that served others whom he viewed directly in their relationship to Christ. Had He not been God in His own being and title, it would have been no humiliation to be a servant, nor could it be indeed a question of taking such a place. There is but one title, there can be no sufficient ground but the name of Christ Christ known and confessed in the Holy Ghost; and where He is simply before us, the progress is most real, if not always easy and sensible. "I'll show you a mystery, we are not going to all sleep, but we are all going to be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of any eye. One cannot overlook the amazing strength with which he speaks even of his affections. Philippians 3:4b-14. Introduction: Born in 1909, Glenn Cunningham, when he was just 8 years old, was severely Such things only prevented him from trusting in Christ (4-7). The real circumcision is not a mark in the flesh; it is that true worship, that true glory, and that true confidence in the grace of God in Jesus Christ. Whatever the motives, whatever the manner, the Lord would surely deal with these in His own day; but, at any rate, Christ was now preached, and God would use this both for His own glory and for the salvation of souls. And thus it was the power of the Spirit of God that gave him to look out in the midst of all that he passed through day by day, that all, whatever it might be, should be done to Christ, and so too all by Christ, the Holy Ghost working it, so to speak, in his soul to give him simply and settledly in everything that occurred an opportunity of having Christ Himself as the substance of his living and serving, no matter what might come in the course of duty. Their end is destruction: their god is their belly; that in which they glory is their shame. Robert Wilkin, the writer quoted above, later changed his view and adopted the "spiritual resurrection view. Let us be humbled on account of our sins. At the same time, God's word is to me plain as to the manner in which the gifts are to be exercised. He adds further (Philippians 3:13; Philippians 3:13): This one thing I do (this was his great care and concern), forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before. Yet we may follow, and seek conformity unto His death; but there was that in His death on the cross which could be His alone. This epistle is therefore eminently instructive to those who could not have an apostle with them. ", Only he desires that their conversation should be as it became the gospel of Christ. It was not a decision made in a moment of impulse, but one by which I still stand fast.". Or it alludes to a judicial appearance; so we are to be found of our Judge in peace, 2 Peter 3:14. "Let your moderation be made known unto men." "Filled," says he, "with the fruit of righteousness, which is by Jesus Christ;" for it is all supposed to be fruit, not isolated fruits here and there, but as a whole, which adds greatly to the strength of it. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. "How can they say they are a child of God? "That is why God apprehended you; He has a glorious plan and a purpose for your future. It is because the world was created out of this flawed matter that sin and evil are in it. doctrine as this to the Philippians. Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word | . Thus with salutations of love he closes this most characteristic and cheering even of Paul's epistles. When the Lord apprehended us, and you can all look back in your own life to that point where the Lord apprehended you, where He said, "I have chosen you and ordained you that you should be my disciple," and we turn to follow Jesus Christ. ( Psalms 69:9). But if a man is to be in special relationship with God, something far more is needed than a mark in his body. To him to live was Christ. This the apostle had his eye upon; this he would attain. How lovely that even such a man should speak, not merely of his own prayers, but of theirs, turning all to such account. Download Commentary. the dead. ] It has been hard for you to kick against the pricks." Oh, it is a blessed thing, that in the midst of the sorrows of this world, the Holy Spirit knows how thus to blend the name of Christ, as the sweetest balm, with the sorrow, however bitter, and to make the very memory of the grief pleasant because of Christ, who deigns to let Himself into it all. Observe, The apostle was as ambitious of being sanctified as he was of being justified. WebPhilippians 3:14 ESV I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. "All that time, Mr. Wesley and I lay on the floor: he had my greatcoat for a pillow, and I had Burkitt's notes on the New Testament for mine. It is the only place in Scripture where the phrase means, not simply the righteousness of God in point of character, but the righteousness of God in point of source. The internal evidence ( i.e. The manner, too, in which these things happened seemed to make all as remote as possible from furthering the gospel; but here again he brings in Christ. out-resurrection). The name of Christ Himself is the true centre of the saints; unto this the Spirit gathers. I endeavour to get more grace and do more good, and never think I have done enough: If that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." "You know, it is what I used to be, what I used to do. Not the passive side of the Christian as being in the world, but the active comes before us. The point is this. That he might know Christ (Philippians 3:10; Philippians 3:10): That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings. . " You know, there are many people in the world tonight who have never had the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. This is a claim that Paul makes more than once ( Acts 22:3; Acts 23:6; Acts 26:5). Paul is talking about their demands that the Gentiles be circumcised to be saved. Righteousness is a gift that God gives to those who have faith in Christ (8-9).But Paul does not stop there. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; that your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again. Breaking Down the Key Parts of Philippians 3:14. But our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly await the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour, for he will refashion the body which we have in this state of our humiliation and make it like his own glorious body, by the working of that power of his whereby he is able to subject all things to himself. Let your every contact with the world be just as light as possible." Love feels acutely nothing so much; but it triumphs. Better not make them known to men; it is a dangerous snare. They go to the bars and drink lite beer and talk about the touchdowns they use to make. Long before them, Mill had given his judgment in favour of the more ancient reading; and Wetstein repeated it apparently with approval. Enough has been already said above, before I even knew of his reasoning, to prove how unfounded it is in every point of view. "This shall turn," says he, "to my salvation through your prayers, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ." 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